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Visiting the UK: Vox Luminis and Freiburg Baroque Consort

Two of Europe's leading early music ensembles, Freiburg Baroque Consort and Vox Luminis, perform Monteverdi's celebrated 1610 Vespers at the 2017 London Festival of Baroque Music.

Andrew McGregor presents the latest in the series of outstanding concerts from the last ten years of visiting orchestras and ensembles, drawn from the Radio 3 archive.

2017 marked four-and-a-half centuries since the birth of Claudio Monteverdi, one of the great figures in Western music. One of the most memorable events of Monteverdi 450 was this exceptional performance of his masterpiece, the Vespers of 1610. Two of Europe's leading early music ensembles, Vox Luminis and Freiburg Baroque Consort joined to recreate this endlessly inventive, dazzlingly expressive music, a ravishing collection of psalms, motets, a sonata, hymn and seven-part setting of the Magnificat, at once intimate and sensuous, splendid and elaborate. Liturgical music, yes. But one critic one seemed to hit the nail on the head when he wrote that 'Nigra sum', one of the settings from the Song of Solomon, 'was the sort of performance that, in other contexts, might well be followed by a cigarette.'

Recorded in May 2017 at the London Festival of Baroque Music at St John's Smith Square and presented on the night by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (beginning)

8.20pm Interval: Lionel Meunier talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about the performance practicalities and musical decisions behind his vision of Monteverdi's Vespers.

8.30pm
Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (conclusion)

Vox Luminis
Freiburg Baroque Consort
Lionel Meunier (director)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Wed 28 Jul 2021 19:30
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Music Played

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespro della beata Vergine (1610), part 1

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Consort.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespro della beata Vergine (1610), part 2

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Ensemble: Freiburg Barock Consort.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 7 in E Minor: III. Scherzo

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 7.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 103.

  • Nino Rota

    Nonetto

    Performer: Daishin Kashimoto. Performer: Joaqu铆n Riguelme Garc铆a. Performer: Claudio Boh贸rquez. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Fran莽ois Meyer. Performer: Gilbert Audin. Performer: Beno卯t de Barsony. Performer: Olivier Thiery.
    • Nino Rota: Chamber Music.
    • Alpha.
    • 7-11.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Jul 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3